關於 - Burning Daylight
版本 - 英文書
刊號 - D5Q1K9HWKE2
發行 - 2015-10-06

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Burning Daylight is a novel by Jack London, published in 1910, which was one of the best-selling books of that year and it was London's best-selling book in his lifetime. The novel takes place in the Yukon Territory in 1893. The main character, nicknamed "Burning Daylight" was the most successful entrepreneur of the Alaskan Gold Rush. The story of the main character was partially based upon the life of Oakland entrepreneur "Borax" Smith. The novel was subsequently filmed as a First National movie starring Milton Sills with Doris Kenyon. 

Chapter I.

It was a quiet night in the Shovel.

At the bar, which ranged along one side of the large chinked-log room, leaned half a dozen men, two of whom were discussing the relative merits of spruce-tea and lime-juice as remedies for scurvy.

They argued with an air of depression and with intervals of morose silence. The other men scarcely heeded them.

In a row, against the opposite wall, were the gambling games.

The crap-table was deserted.

One lone man was playing at the faro-table. The roulette-ball was not even spinning, and the gamekeeper stood by the roaring, red-hot stove, talking with the young, dark-eyed woman, comely of face and figure, who was known from Juneau to Fort Yukon as the Virgin.

Three men sat in at stud-poker, but they played with small chips and without enthusiasm, while there were no onlookers....

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